Philip Sparrow spends a summer in Cornwall at the old family home, Corben Place. He is intrigued by what he hears of the mysterious feuding within his family in the past, and with the story of the Corben House secret - an ancient chalice, supposedly hidden in the house many years before. Philip comes to love the old house and is appalled when an overbearing relative arrives to suggest that part of the estate be requisitioned for an atomic station. With Mr. Mortimer is his unhappy granddaughter Mirabel, and she too falls under the spell of Corben, helping Philip in his search for the chalice...
Philip Sparrow spends a summer in Cornwall at the old family home, Corben Place. He is intrigued by what he hears of the mysterious feuding within his family in the past, and with the story of the Corben House secret - an ancient chalice, supposedly hidden in the house many years before. Philip comes to love the old house and is appalled when an overbearing relative arrives to suggest that part of the estate be requisitioned for an atomic station. With Mr. Mortimer is his unhappy granddaughter Mirabel, and she too falls under the spell of Corben, helping Philip in his search for the chalice...